Tim

There seems to be a degree of persistence in the field definitions in the IDE when I use the fields editor popup (or whatever you call the little dohicky that pops up when you double click a table). I can delete a field in EDBManager but when I use ctrl-F to repopulate the popup the deleted field(s) are still there. It takes opening and closing each table component to get rid of the deleted fields. IE if I have 2 or 3 table components all pointing at EMSearches on different forms I have to open/close each of them.

D2006 & EDB 2.03 Build 6

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< There seems to be a degree of persistence in the field definitions in the
IDE when I use the fields editor popup (or whatever you call the little
dohicky that pops up when you double click a table). I can delete a field in
EDBManager but when I use ctrl-F to repopulate the popup the deleted
field(s) are still there. It takes opening and closing each table component
to get rid of the deleted fields. IE if I have 2 or 3 table components all
pointing at EMSearches on different forms I have to open/close each of them.
>>

Yes, this has been this way since D5 and earlier.  It's just the way that
the FieldDefs work - they have a flag called Updated that is set in the base
TDataSet layer whenever the FieldDefs are updated, and this flag is not
reset until the table is opened again, thus the FieldDefs won't change once
they have been loaded at least once, and the table has not been opened.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

>Yes, this has been this way since D5 and earlier. It's just the way that
>the FieldDefs work - they have a flag called Updated that is set in the base
>TDataSet layer whenever the FieldDefs are updated, and this flag is not
>reset until the table is opened again, thus the FieldDefs won't change once
>they have been loaded at least once, and the table has not been opened.

Ah. Obviously it just surfaces in my attention every now and again. I'll try and remember the next time it annoys me, but no guarantees

Roy Lambert